Notes and Queries
Recent retirements within the
professional community include: Ruth Hel-
muth, Case Western Reserve University
Archivist; William D. Aeschbacher,
teacher and administrator at the
University of Cincinnati; and Lenore R.
O'Boyle and Leon C. Soule of Cleveland
State University.
The 1986 Northern Great Plains History
Conference will be held Septem-
ber 25-27. For details contact Jack M. Lauber,
University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire, Department of History, Eau
Claire, Wisconsin 54701.
The Kentucky Historical Society
presented its annual Richard H. Collins
Award to Professor Frank F. Mathias of
the University of Dayton and to
William J. Marshall, Assistant Director
for Libraries and Special Collections
at the University of Kentucky. The
award, designed to recognize outstanding
research and writing, was given for
Mathias's article "Kentucky's Struggle
for Common Schools, 1820-1850" and
for Marshall's "A.B. Chandler as
Baseball Commissioner, 1945-51."
Both articles appeared during 1984 in The
Register of the Kentucky Historical
Society.
The New York State Historical
Association awarded the 1985 Kerr History
Prize to David M. Ellis for his article
"Whitestown: From Yankee Outpost to
Cradle of Reform" which appeared in
the January 1984 issue of New York
History. Ellis, P.V. Rogers Professor of History Emeritus at
Hamilton College
in Clinton, New York, is the author of
several books on New York state histo-
ry, including the standard college text
on the subject, and has contributed
numerous articles to journals and
reference works.
The Forest History Society, a non-profit
education institution founded in
1946 to advance historical understanding
of mankind's interaction with the
forest environment through programs in
research, publication, service, li-
brary, and archival collecting, awarded
three prizes at its November annual
meeting in Austin, Texas: the $500
Forest History Society Biennial Book
Award to Susan R. Schrepfer of Rutgers
University for her book The Fight to
Save the Redwoods: A History of
Environmental Reform, 1917-1978; the
$150
Weyerhaeuser Award for the best article
in the Journal of Forest History
during 1984 to William G. Robbins of
Oregon State University; and to Thom-
as R. Dunlap of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute, the $150 Blegen Award for the
best article in the field of forest
history and conservation published in a jour-
nal other than Forest History.
The Westerville (Ohio) Public Library
has placed on deposit a Carleton E.
Watkins photographic album with the Ohio
Historical Society. Yo-Semite
Valley: Photographic Views of the
Falls and Valleys Yo-Semite in Mariposa
County, California (San Francisco, 1863) contains sixty-two mammoth images
in addition to the photographically
copied title page and map. For more in-
formation please contact the
Photographic Collection, Archives-Library Di-
vision, Ohio Historical Society, 1985
Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211.
Gary B. Kent (1 Oxford Street, Mount
Waverly, Victoria, Australia 3149) is